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Inside the 
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Epic 

On the World's War 

Politics and Love 



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By 
Stephen S. Parfenoff, LL.B. 

Author of * 'Human Trend/' 



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Contents 

Part One 

CHAPTER I 

Act. I 

Prologue 

Agreement 1 

CHAPTER II 

Birth of Wilhelm 6 

Anti-Christ 7 

Some of Wilhelm 's characteristics . . 7 

CHAPTER III 

Act II 

Old emperor was poisoned .... 9 

Revelation to Wilhelm 10 

CHAPTER IV 
Act I 

Anointment of Wilhelm . . . .17 
Conferring the divine rights . . .18 

Part Two 

CHAPTER I 

Act I 

English policy 27 

CHAPTER II 

Act II 

Smart kings 30 



CONTENTS 

Entente 31 

CHAPTER III 

Act III 

War 32 

Kaiser was prepared 33 

The monster . . . . . . .35 

The great bear 36 

Part Three 

CHAPTER I 

Act I 

Love ........ 41 

CHAPTER II 

Demon saw love 44 

Demon's affection resulted in loss of his • 

tw^o friends 45 

Demon cried 46 

Demon fell in love 47 

CHAPTER III 
Act III 

Demon's proposal 49 

The girl responded 51 

Forged letter 51 

CHAPTER IV 
Act IV 

Uncle Sam 53 

So near — yet so far 56 



CONTENTS 



Unprepared .... 

Demon lost in love 

Demon makes Liberty blind . 

CHAPTER V 

Act V 
Keep away from kaiser 
Peace at any price 
Too proud to fight . 

CHAPTER VI 

Wager of politics . 

Act VI 
Alliance with reds . 
Interview with Lenine . 



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Part Four 

Fruits of Russian revolution 
Stand of progressive party 
Stand of moderate socialists 
Stand of army leaders . 
Bolshevism . 
Terrorism 

Kaiser's greatest victory 
Call for help . 

Part Five 
CHAPTER I 

Act I 

Respond 

Uncle Sam accomplishes impossible 



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CONTENTS 

CHAPTER II 

Act I 
Last charge of devil's army . . . .95 
Marxists' strategy . . . . . 96 
Blaming autocrats 97 

Act II 
Kaiser — a fugitive 97 

Act III 

Diplomatism 99 

Beneficiaries of the world war . . . 100 

Wilson's failure 101 

Acknowledgment of Bismarck . . . 102 

Part Six 
CHAPTER I 

Act I 

Love 105 

Columbia's rule 106 

Act II 
Czar Nicholas II .107 

Act III 

Hades 110 

The king of Hades Ill 

The kaiser 112 

Act IV 
The supermen .... . . 114 

Act V 
Octopus iiber alles 115 

Act VI 
Lenine 's end 116 



CONTENTS 

Act VII 

Home of Trotzky 120 

Trotzky's greed 121 

Act VIII 
Epilogue 122 



INSIDE THE GREAT CONFLICT 

Epic on the Great War, Politics and Love 

By Stephen S. Parpenoff, LL. B. 

Author of ''Human Trend'' 

Cast of principal characters: 

Bismarck 

Demon 

Kaiser 

People 

Liberty 

Columbia 

Roosevelt 

Uncle Sam 

Wilson 

Czar Nicolas 

Lenine 

Trotzky 

et al 



PROLOGE 

It was written enough 
Of love and great war 
And politics in prose 
And I decided, therefore, 

To escape the datas 
And conventional style. 
To use my simple rhymes 
And let the critics smile. 

Of course, you all admit 
That the truth is naked 
So read the book quietly 
Though your heart is ached. 



PART ONE 



Chapter I 

AGREEMENT 
Act I 

Bismarck: (In his cabinet, angry alone) 

Again a daughter born 
To our wretched princess . . . 
But we need an heir — man 
To fi^ht the world — yes. . . . 

We must have a leader 
To put the Vaterland 
Tiber alles and to hold 
The world in iron hand. 

But this — our crown prince 
Is just a feeble rat, 
They can not give a birth 
To an heir — male — a brat. 

Demon: (Appearing) 
Yes, I can help you. 

Bismarck : (Surprised) 

Why, is it demon? Well! 
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Demon : 

Why, don't you recognize? 
Directly from hell! 

Bismarck : 

But what do you want of me? 

Demon : 

Why, you called me idly, 
I am not, I can help you 
And can be your ally. 

Bismarck : (After a moment) 

Well, for the Vaterland ! — 
Aim justifies the means; 
Crime — when — successful 
Called virtue by its miens. 

Better crime — a success 
Than virtue — a failure. 

Demon : 



Yes, if I deposed God — 
I would live at leisure. 

If you conquer the world 
Then most shall hail thee 

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A liberator — who 

The people has set free. 



Bismarck : 



Oh, yes, my Vaterland 
Must be ''uber alles." 



Demon : 



And if you want it so 
Then we must be allies. 



Bismarck : 



What is your condition? 
Or better state your case ! 



Demon : 



First you need a leader 
Worthy of your race- — 

And I swear by my might, 
That your crown princess 
Will have an heir bom 
Who can not us disgrace; 

And he — when emperor — 
Will crown your ambition, 
He will conquer the world ■ 
In spite of opposition. 

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Bismarck : 

What is your condition 
For helping our cause? 

Demon : 

Why, we 're Atilla 's kins 
And pursue the same course. 

I want to drag Him down — 
The heavenly dweller 
And be a king of hell 
And heaven together. 

I want the kaiser to be — 
Supreme power on earth ; 
And I shall be his Gott 
To rule o'er death and birth. 

Your God imparts the fears — 
Only — an autocrat, 
But I'm for liberty, 
I am a democrat! 

When your folks shall bow 
And take me as their Gott 
Then liberty will reign 
For you, forget me not ! 

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My condition — easy, 
As a matter of fact. 



Bismarck : 



(According to the custom d/raws 
his Mood and takes a scroll of 
paper from the devil) 

By blood from right hand 
I shall sign the contract. 

To demon by his blood 
Bismarck signed a contract 
For his dear fatherland, 
Simple matter of fact! 



Demon : 



Now, Bismarck, listen. 
Our first step is this: 
I'll make the princess sleep 
Then her you take and — kiss. 

Bismarck : 

For my dear fatherland, 
I shall kiss the princess — 
Aim justifies the means ! 

Demon : 

Go ahead — your plans I bless. 

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Chapter II 
BIRTH OF KAISER 

As a fruit of the devil's plan, 
In time it came to pass; 
A living thing was born — 
E'en mother said: alas! 

It wasn't a rattle snake 
The more fierce looking; 
It was not a hyena — 
A more blood thirsty thing; 

But lo, it was a male! 
To rule on German throne. 
Princess saw a devil born 
And she, while all alone, 

And terror stricken, tried 
To stab the devil-baby. 
But the father — demon 
There has been already 

And took the boy away 
By the left arm of his 
And saved it thereby. 
And that is why it is 

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The kaiser's left arm grew 
Shorter than the other, 
It's a devilish mark 
And the curse of his mother. 

ANTICHRIST 

Jesus Christ was born 
In the humblest place; 
But the devil was bom — 
A prince in the palace. 

Son of God was greeted 
By shepherds and the star 
But the son of the devil 
By every king and czar. 

Oh, hail you all grafters. 
Crooks, beasts and rats. 
Profiteers, spouse-haters. 
Felons, vamps and brats ! ! 

Here is your inspiration. 
Here is your ideal 
In your vile spheres 
Not a sprite-corporeal. 

SOME OF KAISER'S CHARACTERISTICS 

Two decades have passed 
And look at the devil 's son — 

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Hell is not disgraced 
Nor is Bismarck undone. 

He has the eyes of swine 
But with the eagle's sight, 
With the features of a bull, 
But as a cat — so light. 

He was a king of kings 
By look and by his mind. 
But the kurd was nobler 
And yacquis — more refiu'd. 

Attila and Chingis Chan 
And John the Terrible 
Were excell'd by this beast 
In deeds contemptible. 

He was every inch a tyrant, 
Lusty — a chimpanzee. 
Ravished nuns and sisters 
True to his pedigree. 



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Chapter III 
Act II 

OLD EMPEROR WAS POISONED 

(Bismarck and demon in Bismarck's 
cabinet) 



Bismarck : 



Now, I am growing old 
But before I am gone 
I want to see Wilhelm 
On the German throne. 



Demon : 



He is well bred by now, 
Graduated from hell, 
His past and present deeds 
Speak for future well. 

Here's a dose of poison — 
When the old rat will dine 
You give it unto him 
In the beer — not in wine. 

The king of ninety days 
By beer was put on Fritz 

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For good of Vaterland, 

That's why they love the Sehlitz. 

REVELATION TO KAISER 

(Bismarck, demon and kaiser in the 
cell of kcdser's family-treasures) 

Bismarck : 

Now, my future kaiser, 
Before you mount the throne 
We shall tell you a secret. 
Which you must know alone. 

Demon : 

Your father left a will 
And other magic things 
How to defeat the world 
And be a king of kings. 

Kaiser : 

Oh, that's my ambition — 
To put the Vaterland 
Tiber alles and to hold 
The world in iron hand. 

Bismarck : 

According to this will, 
First you war on Russia, 

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In such a way and manner: 
The old king of Austria, 

Being as your servant, 
Shall war on Serbs, of course, 
Russia will stand by them — 
That's a cause for your force 

To be set on Russia 
And against her allies. 
Czarina, in the meantime, 
Being one of our spies, 

Shall cause her Nick to quit 
Fighting for his brothers — 
And we shall win the world! . . . 
And then so far as others, 

Like England, are concerned. 
They can't sail to Berlin; 
And the chocolate soldiers 
Shall die before they win. 



Demon : 



If our trump — czarina 
Will be known as our spy 
And cause the fall of czar 
Then you'll have to rely 

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On Lenine and the son 
Of Judah — named Trotzky, 
They'll raise cry for freedom 
For the bolsheviky. 

But U. S. A., of course, 
They am't going to fight, 
"We breed there Bryan and 
Wilson — they are all right. 

And they all shall stand 
For peace at any price. 
You send your offsprings there 
To finance them all wise. 



Bismarck : 



When France is over-run 
And Russia's on her knees, 
Then England will be yours, 
And U. S. A. at peace — 

Then all your legal sons 
And illegitimates 
Shall rule the whole world 
As blood confederates. 



Demon 



And then your Vaterland 
Will be uher alles 

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And you as "all highest" 
Shall laugh at the allies. 

Show a benevolence, 
Not an autocracy, 
And stand for liberty, 
Play in democracy. 

And always remember 
You are the hand of Gott — 
The greatest master here 
And thus, forget you not, 

You are the ''all highest" 
Amongst this mankind. 



WlLHELM : 



''Gott is mit uns," and soon 
The world will so find. 



Demon : 



(Giving a hundle of maps and 
drawings to Wilhelm) 

We all depend on you. 
Take these secret plans 
For making war machines, 
How to spy or to advance. 

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Make wars in Mexico 
And strikes in U. S. A. 
Boom that business first 
And that will pave your way. 

Let profiteers get rich 
By robbing the poorest class 
And make them mad as dogs, 
Revolt and die in mass. 

Let your men be tyrants 
And the agitators 
To raise revolutions 
As the liberators. 

Stand no compromise, 
Use well the brutal force 
And let the public pets 
Be grafters — legal curs. 

They'll cause a class war. 
Brother will fight brother, 
Son will fight his father 
And daughter — her mother. 

You are to go by trail 

Of your ancestors — huns. 



WiLHELM : 



Oh, I shall excel them 
Because Oott is mit uns. 



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Demon : 

When the world will go mad 
In shedding blood and tears 
Then you'll be the master 
On BOTH hemispheres. 

But beware of Roosevelt 
And Milukoff — they are 
Worse to us than all 
Opposing kings and czar. 

Bismarck : 

(Giving a Mood-stained sheet to 
Wilhelm, who looked at it in dis- 
gust.) 

Flag for agitators, 
Give it them when you need 
Their help, it's their banner 
Will help you so in deed. 

WiLHELM : 

(Stepping backward as from an 
abominable premises) 

Why, that's a bloody rag! 
Even bulls don't love it. . . . 

Bismarck : 

Not the red reformers. 
It's their learnt requisite. 

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WiLHELM: (Still obstinate) 

Who drew the blood? from whom? 

Bismarck: (To Wilhelm) 

You drew it by your birth 
And we wrote plans with it 
To make you king of earth. 

(Kaiser takes the rag and kisses it.) 



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Chapter IV 
Act I 

ANOINTMENT OF WILHELM 

(Representatives of many nations were present 
and some of the crowned heads could he seen. 
Glittering and pomp was too comprehensible 
to describe). 

It wasn't a wedding feast 
Nor funeral of witch, 
It wasn't a dog's assembly, 
Out of sight, in the ditch, 

It wasn't a rat in grease 
Nor a mouse in the cream 
Or a snake anointing 
A snake in joy supreme; 

It was the anointment 
Of the son of devil, 
Was — an anathema — 
Triumph of the evil. 

With the sounds of anthem 
Rang the bells, roared guns, 
And in exult of joy 
Even monks married nuns — 

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So maiden blood and tears, 
Sour-krout, wine and beer, 
Duels, cards and robbery 
Were mixed in the revere. 

E'en diamonds in the crown 
Were bought with the blood 
Of ages by the devil — 
Were prize of sin and lewd. 

Why shouldn't they rejoice? 
The top of the chaplet even 
Was adorned, think of it. 
With the cross of heaven. 

CONFERRING THE DIVINE RIGHTS 

Bismarck : 

(Ending his address, which was an 
arrogant praise of his Vaterland 
for her heroic deeds in the past, 
great achievement in the present, 
and the great future, praising his 
Vaterland even for her great un- 
done deeds in advance, exclaims 
in exult.) 

Kings, ladies and gentlemen, 
Deutchland uher alles! 
And glory to our king 
And praise to his allies. 

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(At this time the suite of high 
priests approached the stand he- 
fore the throne with their canonic 
paraphernalia and the sacra- 
mental oil to bestow the divine 
rights of the anointee.) 

Prince Gorchakofp of Russia: (Aside) 

Old frog — uber alles, 
Unter alles of hogs. . . . 

Ambassador of England : (Aside) 
Uber alles of fools. . . . 

Ambassador of U. S. A. : (Aside) 
Uber alles of dogs. . . . 

Ambassador of France : 

Uber alles of curs — 
The prowlers of nights. 

Priest: (Ending his henediction) 

And now by anointing 

You'll have ''all highest rights." 

Priests : (Praying in a low voice) 

Victories to the king. . . . 
Glory to Vaterland. . . . 

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Gerchakoff : 

(Observing the cup with the sacra- 
mental oil) 

They want to give the devil 
Divine rights, understand. . . . 

To dispute the right of God! 
Not that ! — you king of huns. . . . 

Priest: (Praying) 

Lord, make us uher alles. . . . 

WiLHELM : 

Yes, Gott ist mit tins. . . . 

GORCHAKOFF : 

(While the assembly were praying, 
he took the cup with the sacred oil 
and emptied it in his pocket and 
then poured in it his common 
booze — vodka — from the quart, 
which he had a hahit of carrying 
with him even to church, aside) 

And this kind of sacred oil 

And give you ' ' de-wine rights ". . . . 

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Priest : (Anointing Wilhelm with vodka) 

Oh, Lord make all his foes 

To fear him — day and night. . . . 

GORCHAKOFF : 

(After the ceremony of anointment, 
ending his address) 

I pray you all to notice 
That now this anointment 
Gave the king "De-wine" rights 
With God's arbitrament. . . . 

So Wilhelm took the throne 
Son of devil, king of huns, 
Thinking: uher alles; 
And saying: Gott mit uns. 

GoRCHAKOFF: (LooMng at the kaiser, aside) 

This anointment ' ' de-wine ' ' 
Did not make him feel well . . . 
And so he won't succeed — 
He will go back to hell. . . . 

Bismarck : 

(Observing no change in the face 
of kaiser, scented the trouble and 
examined the sacred cup, where- 

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upon he found a common mujik 
vodka instead of the sacraments 
in it and in rage to Gorchakoff) 

My old friend, Gorchakoff, 
You are a friend — no more! 
You have tricked the master 
And for this — we shall war! 

Gorchakoff : (Laughing, to Bismarck) 

Go ahead, break your neck, 
But there will be no more 
''Divine rights" for your kings 
Whether in peace or war. 

Demon: (Appearing and irely to Bismarck) 

For such an impudence. 
His czar, the Liberator 
Shall die by violence 
From hands of conspirator. 

I will make his czar's son 
A vodka's fiend — to die. 
The throne of czar's grandson 
Will fall and end his sigh. 

(Directly to Bismarck) 

Breed for them czarina. 
Send more bureaucrats 

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And more provocators 
To use the mass as brats. 

And then Russian nations 
And her classes shall fight 
As mad dogs and equal 
In their fighting might. 

(Demon disappears, leaving Gor- 
chaJcoff and Bismarck face to face. 
Kaiser observing their stern atti- 
tude comes on the scene and drops 
his handkerchief at the feet of 
Gorchakoff.) 

GORCHAKOFF : 

(Observing the purpose of the 
kaiser, instead of picking it up, 
steps on the kaiser's handkerchief) 

Might of truth is with us — 
Might of God and, therefore, 
We shall not sleep in peace 
And we shall fight in war. 

Gott's not mit uns — but God . . . 
And all's well — when ends well, 
But surely, I believe, 
You all shall meet in hell. . . . 

(Gorchakoff leaves Bismarck and 
Kaiser in their irresponsive spell.) 

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PART TWO 



Chapter I 
Act I 

ENGLISH POLICY 

(Session of the English cabinet) 

Gray: (Expressing the foreign policy) 

Our ancient enemy, 
The land power — Russia 
Must be made our ally 
At the expense of Persia 

And Constantinople. 
If not — then czarina 
Will make Nick an ally 
Of kaiser — the hyena. . . . 

Minister of Marines: 

And if our fleet will be 
Outrivaled on the sea 
Then our cause will be lost 
And India will be free 

And other colonies 
Shall follow U. S. A. 

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And the British cause 
Will be lost, Mr. Gray. . . . 



Gray: 



Our trump — to form an entente 
And then "league of nations," 
Entente to break the huns, 
League — to guard possessions. 

We can hold what we have 
By keeping us in team 
With the smallest nations 
And the crown will be supreme. 

Against the Russian nation 
We've revolutions. 
We'll keep her paralyzed 
By her institutions. 

Next president of yanks 
Will be a friend of us. 
Who shall like the king 
And make so — all U. S. 

Roosevelts and Milukoifs 
Must be dealt with wise — 
Keep them out of power 
And that — at any price. 

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Minister of Finance: 

France and other nations — 
No less — than our vassals 
Because their heads depend 
On British capitals. 



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Chapter II 
Act II 

(In Rome. An agitating conference between the 
kings of Italy, Roumania Bulgaria and the am- 
bassador of France just before the great war.) 

SMART KINGS 

Ambassador of France : (Agitated and tired) 

You must be our allies 
Against the devil kaiser. . . . 

King op Italy: (Defensively) 

"We must have the money. . . . 
(He was not a Miser) 

Yet, we don't like Russia, 

If she is free of curbs 

Then we '11 not be able 

To show a tongue to Serbs. . . . 

We want all Dalmatia 
And the Adriatic 
And make all Jugo-Slavs 
To feel as on the attic. 

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And if Eussia will have 
The Dardanelles' strait 
Then for us — good night — 
With the bear tete a tete. 

King of Bulgaria : (Antagonistically) 

That's why I took the name 
Of czar — it makes me right 
To claim the rivalship 
"With the Moscow might. 

The kaiser said to me 
To take the name of czar 
And here — I am the czar ! 
The Russian dreams to bar. 

King op Roumania : (German prince) 

If czar will have Bosphorus 
Then I shall lose my say 
In my Roumanian home — 
I'll work the other way. 

Entente 

And so just Russia, 
Serbs, England and France 
Have formed the alliance 
To break the devil's lance. 

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Chapter III 
Act III 

WAR 

(State room of the kaiser. Lackey announces 
the appearance of the ^^all highest.' ' Kaiser 
appears with demon behind him. All the as- 
sembly bows in homage. Demon triumphantly 
laughing.) 

Demon : (Aside, to assembly) 

All thy learnt brains — mine, 
All thy juniors — my slaves, 
Now I will gain by wars 
"What my ambition craves. . . . 

Assembly: (To the ''highest") 

We hail ^'the all highest"— 
The '^Father" of six sons! 

Kaiser : (Aside) 

''Father," they make me laugh. . . . 

(To the assembly) 
Children, Gott ist mit uns. 
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(After receiving reports from his 
ministers and finding that all his 
enemies are not yet prepared for 
the war, kaiser saw the advantage 
and after summing up the reports 
in a brief statement, exclaims) 

And we are ' ' uber alles ! " 

And just as huns before — 

"We'll win by sword and fire. . . . 

I declare on Russ war! 

Squeal and scream and roar 
Met his declaration, 
E'en Marxists sharpen 'd tails 
All throughout the nation. 

E'en the kaiser's daughter 
Loved a commonest hun 
For a democracy . . . 
When the war's begun. 

Kaiser Was Prepared 

Kaiser with help of devil 
According to his plans 
Built ships for sea and air 
And mysterious guns. 

To capture gay Paris, 
In the year of 1914, 

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He without a warning, 
Set his best machine. 

And so it came to pass — 
The social demokrats 
Were true to their Bismarck 
Had gendarmes in their hearts, 

Instead of Marseillaise 
Sang ' ' Deutschland uber alles" 
And the '^Wacht am Rhein" 
Killing their own allies. 

And the sun was too weak 
To send his rays on earth 
Thru the clouds of darkness 
To light the death and dearth. 

And worse than a sarancha 
On the spring field of rye, 
And worse than the black plague, 
And cholera's death sigh, 

Worse than a joy of kurds 
In Armenian village. 
Worse than Jews' pogroms 
In a Russian pillage; — 

It was the kaiser's march. 
The king of beasts and sin, 

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To sit in gay Paris 
''Unter der baldachin.'^ 



The Monster 

Like a reptile wizard, 
Breathing fire and gas, 
With one blow leveling 
The cities to the grass, 

And with a single breath 
Breaking fences and forts 
And by his paws sweeping 
Forests, hosts and ports, 

Kaiser — ghasty monster — 
Horribly marched on. 
Blinding the moon and stars 
And the rays of the sun. 

Misery, tears and blood. 
Terror, slaughter and woe 
Were his faithful servants, 
And against such a foe 

Belgium, ought to be said. 
With all her little might, 
Bravely, at the monster 
To stop him, took a bite. 

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The Great Bear 

The bite of Belgium 
Could not stop the kaiser, 
It did not save Paris, 
Nor made the beast wiser. 

And — one moment more 
The proud beauty of France 
He would ravish — but then 
In such a circumstance 

The tail of the monster 
That was in East-Prussia 
Was caught by the teeth 
Of great bear from Russia, 

Who would not let it loose 
And the beast of kaiser — 
Then coiled like a snake, 
Trembled like a miser. 

And for the strategy. 
To capture sweet Paris, 
Decided that his tail 
First must be made free. 

And so he coiled backward. 
Struck the bear of Russia 
With his available might, 
Thrust him out of Prussia — 

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But before lie could free 
His tail from the bear 
The British came to help 
In less than half a year. 

And the beast of kaiser 

In new rush for Paris 

Lo, the river of Mame 

He found then — a broad sea. 

With his tail pinched fast 
He could pass Marne — no more. 
But the French and British 
Think that they won the war! 



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PART THREE 



Chapter I 
Act I 

(Scene of garden in the Spring. Roses abloom 
and varieties of other flowers. Tillie Liberty 
and Stephen People on the tench under an 
oak tree.) 

LOVE 

Tillie : (In sweet lover's voice) 

Stephen, dear, I shall be 
Happy all my life thru, 
Clinging to your side as 
Your wife — good and true. . . . 

I dream of you by night 
And long for you by day . . . 
I love you, dear Stephen, 
I am your own — I pray. . . . 

Stephen: (In exult of gladness) 

Dear, many years I spent 
In search of one like you ; 
And now the world is mine — 
You are my — angel — true. . . . 

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And how strong I am now! 
How sweet is such a life! 
I love you, dear Tillie, 
Be my partner — my wife. . . . 

TiLiLiE : (In reverie) 

Stephen, I don't believe 
In death — because — we love, 
Love makes us saint, pure, 
Just as the One above. 

Stephen : 

Tillie dear, talk some more, 
I want to hear your voice, 
Murmuring ever love. 
Thrill me and rejoice. . . . 

When I just touch your hand 
I feel myself — your part — 
Part of sun in heaven, 
A universal heart. . . . 

Tillie : 

Stephen dear, I love you. 

Stephen : 

Tillie dear, I love you. . . . 
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TiLLiE AND Stephen : (Together) 

From now on, help us God, 
We vow to be e 'er true. . . . 

(Now they kiss and how long — I 
know not.) 



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Chapter II 

DEMON SAW LOVE 

Well, have you ever been 
In love so deep as this ? 
Did you e'er lose a time 
When you have had a kiss? 

Love perfects imperfect; 
Cabbage — makes your rose; 
Devil — makes your angel 
Whom you cannot oppose. . . . 

And here's a proof to you: 
A demon loosed from hell 
Once flew over U. S. A. 
To marry Europe, — belle 

Of exquisite beauty; — 
The king of blood and death. 
The king of hate and wrath, 
The king of poison 'd breath 

Observed the lovers' twain, 
Their lips joined in a kiss, — 
Heart to heart, breast to breast 
And can you believe this — 

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The coward demon stop 'd, 
The dirty king of hell 
Grew ashamed of his life 
And on the earth — he fell ! . . . 

The demon, heartless beast, 
Black of sod and dried blood. 
Watched the loving couple 
While hiding in the mud. . . . 

Demon's Affection Resulted in Loss 
OF His Two Friends 

Was he there half a day, 
Half a year — I know not. 
But the beast — the kaiser, 
Being without his Gott, 

Soon began to question 
The hope to win the war 
With his tail in the pinch 
And blunted teeth, therefore. 

His friends deserted him: 
First the Italian king 
Then the Roumanian king 
Joined the British ring 

To help the British cause 
Against the Russian bear, 

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To get for this his share 
Or if they can — his hair. 

Demon Cried 

Every kiss and laugh, 
Each word of love and cheers 
Made the devil meek and mad 
And shed his grief in tears. 

The first time in his life 
Demon cried and his tears 
Were dropped on the ground 
Of U. S. A., and hear!: 

The land of God's country 
Shriveled in disgust, 
Shook the hills of the East, 
Blew cities to a dust. 

Could not chase the devil off 
Under the laws of men 
But it blew the tears up 
In anger great and then 

Would not take them back. 
Winds carried them away. 
One of devil's tears fell 
On island of Hawaii 

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And now there, where it fell, 
Right on the top of the isle, 
A hell came out — crater. 
Breathing fire all the while. 

Another devil's tear 
Fell near Valparaise, 
State of Indiana, 
Where you can find also — 

A hole, called Sager's lake, 
Set in a lovely vale, 
The place where lovers meet. 
But listen to this tale: — 

EVry year in the Spring 
Its water takes a man 
Unfaithful to his maid, 
E'er since the lake began. 

Demon Fell in Love 

The king of war and slaves, 
The king of depths of hell, 
Forlorn his own glory, 
In love for Tillie fell. 

He ran into a lake. 
Sod and blood washed off 
Attired in a civil dress 
And came out, — Bernstoff. 

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His servants were so glad, 
Chewed the glass, drank the oil 
And blood in Mexico 
And over Europe's soil. 

Some didn 't know what to do 
So they turned to be good 
And took the shape of snakes 
And crept all in the wood. 



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Chapter III 
Act III 

(Demon as an ambassador was introduced into 
the society of this country, gained an acquaint- 
ance with Tillie Liberty and became her ardent 
admirer, notwithstandin Tillie' s repeated re- 
fusal to accept his attention. Scene of the ball 
given by the ambassador Bernstoff, where could 
be seen most of the democratic leaders ivith Wil- 
son and Bryan as the lions of the set. Demon 
and Tillie on the terrace.) 

DEMON'S PROPOSAL 
Demon : 

Fair maid of U. S. A., 
Your purity is deep 
Sunk in the heart of mine, 
I can sigh, I can weep, 

I can make war or peace, 
I once have dwelt above, 
I'm still a king of kings. 
But I can 't take thy love. 

Surrender yourself, maid. 
To me, and God Himself 

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Will come down, — a servant 
"When the world will be — myself. 

But I am lacking love. 
Maid bestow me thy love, 
And the realm of Hell 
And the kingdom of above 

Shall be united in one 
And there will be no fears 
Of God or hate of hell, 
Nor shedding blood or tears. 

Happiness of the world 
Depends alone on peace — 
So long as hell and heav'n 
Live — war will never cease. 

Think of the harmony 
Of universal peace, 
For which humanity 
Will pray thee on her knees. 

And hail me — Messiah, 
Forgetting sacrifice. 
And here upon the earth 
We'll make a paradise. 

I'll give you silk and gold, 
Diamonds and rare things, 

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"World 's riches shall be yours . . 
And servants — earls and kings. 

The Girl Responded 

The words of such a kind 
From one who can persist 
Have a great attraction — 
Some girls cannot resist. 

And Tillie was not old, 
Of mind and body pure, 
She could not understand 
As one of age mature 

The demon's final aim 
And agreed with the devil 
That 'tis nigh well to end 
War of good and evil. 

Forged Letter 

One of the demon's servants 
After a little while 
Brought Tillie a false message 
Full of deceit guile — 

A Forged letter, saying, 
That Stephen overheard 
Bernstoff's talk to her 
And that now it's absurd 

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To keep the engagement, 
She could not understand 
Such sort of jealousy 
From her loved Stephen, and 

She asked the demon — why 
He is so eccentric 
And the demon said that 
May be, he's splenetic. 

But it's an old saying 
That if you have a lover 
You would never listen 
Love talk of another. 

And so it comes to pass — 
When the woman does yield 
Her years to love talks — 
Thus she loses her shield. 



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Chapter IV 
Act IV 

UNCLE SAM 

(Sleeping room of Uncle Sam. Roosevelt enters 
and is trying to wake him.) 

Roosevelt : 

Sam, you sleep too long . . . 
Open your eyes and see . . . 
I came to talk with you, 
Come on, wake up, hear me. 

Sam: 

Well, let me sleep some more. 

Roosevelt : 

You may sleep when I am gone, 

But I am here and I will 

Keep you awake, come on! . . . 

Uncle Sam gets under 
Blankets, but Teddy takes 
The blankets off and Sam, 
Seeing clothes off, makes 

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A dash to his ward-robe. 

Sam: 

What is the matter, Teddy, 
You go hunting and when 
You're back — 111 be ready. 

Roosevelt : 

No, get dressed right now, 
We have no time to lose 
For beasts in Africa 
Or e'en for the bull-moose. 

Every common sense 
So well understands 
That Miss Liberty 
Falls in the devil's hands. 

Sam : (Excitedly) 

What? what, my daughter! 

(Reflectively) 
Well, Teddy, can 't you see 
That my little daughter 
Is her own boss and free. 

Roosevelt : 

What, to mary a devil ! 
And drag us all to hell! 

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No, by God, you sleep yet, 
Oh, I shall ring the bell, 

I'll wake you up to see 
The things yourself quite well 
That this groomed Bernstoff 
A demon out of hell. . . . 

Sam : (Seriously) 

Why, Teddy, can you prove ? 

EOOSEVELT : 

Yes, come and you shall see 
That our Miss Liberty 
From the devil is not free ! 



Sam: 



Well, it may be the truth. 
That freedom is all right 
So long as it is ours . . . 
And, surely, I will fight 

Any suitor of hell 
Who does court my daughter. 
Let us go and see him — 
Who is that curst plotter? 

(The party leaves.) 

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Act IV 

SO NEAR — YET SO FAR 

(Scene of a parlor. Demon and Tillie hy the 
window.) 

Demon : 

Liberty, marry me 
And the pearls of oceans, 
The gold of the world 
And the fur of Russians 

I'll bring all to thy feet. 

Tillie : (Jokingly) 

You can spoil me thereby . . . 

So much ev'ry thing. . . . 

I want . . . — be good and I. . . . 

Demon : 

(Seeing meekness of Tillie, takes 
her hy the arms with intent to 
kiss her) 

Love me, my dear Tillie, 

(Aside) 

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This will take off my curse. . . . 

(To Tillie) 

And then I will be able 
To rule the universe. 

Tillie : (Hesitatingly) 

I will ask my father first. . . . 



Demon 



Oh, Tillie, you are free, 
Therefore, to marry me 
You are at liberty. 



Tillie 



Yes, my father said to me 
That I'm of age and free 
And I believe in that — 
"What you have said to me. 



Demon : 



(In exuberance of joy steps hack 
of Tillie and takes his own shape, 
aside.) 

Oh, here I am the king, 
King of hell and heaven 

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And ill a moment, God 

From heaven shall be driven. . . . 

(Demon takes hack the appearance 
of Bernstof and again embraces 
Tillie.) 

End of mad world has come, 
The end of wars for life . . . 
World shall have one master! 
And there will be no strife. 

Then vice and sin shall be 
Good as virtue itself. 
Then hate will be — love, 
Fear — faith, and life — myself. 

The tigers and the lions, 
All the beasts of prey — 
111 make them human pets 
On the streets to play. 

Tillie : 

Oh, then I shall be free, 
Why, absolutely free, 
Yes, I shall marry thee. 
My love I give to thee. 

Demon: (Taking his devilish shape, aside) 

I've won — ^the God is mine! — 
The love is in my hand . . . 

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And my immortal kiss 

My kingdom shall expand. . . . 

(Demon leans to kiss Tillie and at 
that moment Uncle Sam, Roosevelt 
and People enter in the parlor 
and see the demon in his real self, 
who observed the party and 

stopped to realize the kiss.) 

Unprepared 

Sam : (Excitedly) 

By God, that's some devil! . . . 
Boys, shoot 'im, fire the gun. . . . 

EOOSEVELT : 

Sam, Where's your gun ? quick ! 

Sam: 

I have not any one. . . . 

Oh, Jesus Christ, help us, 
"We are not armed, sons. 
To kill a bat ; Wilson 
Is rusting all my guns. . . . 

Let us run to Wilson! . . . 
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KOOSEVELT : 

Leave the girl to the devil ! 
No! let's use what we have 
To defeat this evil. . . . 

(Mr. People makes a rush on the 
devil with unmistakable intent to 
fight him with what he has — his 
fists — hut Roosevelt holds him 
hacTc, saying,) 

Let me handle him first, 
You see he 's a devil and — 
Stronger physically 
Than you are, understand. 

Liberty : 

I am free, am I not? ... 
Why can't I be as such ! . . , 

Roosevelt : 

Yes, I do not deny — 

You're free, but not so much — 

As to marry a devil 
And make us all his kins. 

Demon : (Laughing) 

Ha, ha, ha, she loves me, 
You're late — and my cause wins, 

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She will be from now on — 
Mine — my own Liberty, 
She gave herself to me 
And in this she was free ! 

Your Constitution says 
That the people are free 
And your God blessed them, 
Therefore, you all can see 

That under the laws of men 
And under the laws of God 
Miss Liberty is mine. 
You have lost — the wage is odd. 



EOOSEVELT : 



Our Constitution is 
The law of our own land — 
It is made for OUR good 
To keep our good in hand, 

But can't protect the devil, 
It's against the COMMON LAW. 
And, therefore, the devil 
Shall have to withdraw. 



Demon : 



But God's law is higher 

Than that " common law" of thine, 

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God sanctions love on earth — 
She loves me — she is mine. . . . 

(And the demon with Liberty in 
his arms makes a dash for out- 
side, hut Roosevelt catches him hy 
the wings and halts) 

Roosevelt : 

Wait, I am not thru yet, 
Why is such a hurry? 
If you 're right — you '11 have 
Liberty, why worry! 

And we will not claim her, 
But see, OUR Liberty 
In the hands of the devil 
Does not make him free. . . . 

D-EMONifirely) 

She loves me — she is mine. . . . 

EOOSEVELT : 

NO ! she's saved by LOVE — 
Love is virtue of God 
And her home is above. 

Demon : Makes Liberty blind with his breath and 
irely) 

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Demon : 

If I did not win her 

By my love then, I swear, 

I'll win her by the war! 

(And started to run away) 

Stephen People: (Running after demon) 

Await you, devil, wait! 
I have not got the lead 
But with my empty hands 
I'll tear off 3^our head! 

Uncle Sam: 

Go to, boy, and get him! 

Roosevelt : 

No use, Sam, you will see, 
He has a safety place 
In the German embassy. 

Liberty : (As after a sleep) 

Yes, I know myself now — 
I have been so blind, 
And now my eyes — outward 
Expression of my mind. 

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Uncle Sam: 

Liberty, from now on 
You can't be by yourself. 

Liberty : 

Yes, I shall be more safe 
In your care, I know myself. 



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Chapter V 
Act V 

(Scene of Wilson's cabinet. Session of council 
of defense. Most of the members are pres- 
ent.) — keep aivay from fighting, peace at any 
price, too proud to fight, etc. 

Stephen People: (In altercation) 

Wilson, I want a gun! 
To kill a demon, see. . . . 

Wilson : 

No, you haven't the right . . . 
The devil is in his embassy. 

Roosevelt : 

But he brings upon us WAR, 
Destroys our property, 
Kills our men and is 
Filching our Liberty. . . . 

People : 

He blows our mills in air — 
He plunders our land. . . . 
We must fight him down 
And all his devilish band. . . . 

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Wilson : 

I don't approve the FIGHT, 
But the SHIPS and OUR MEN 
Must KEEP AWAY from him — 
It will be all right then. 

Roosevelt : 

But he destroys our homes, 
Steals Liberty away. , . . 

Wilson : (Antagonistically) 

Why, I said already — 

That they MUST KEEP AWAY. 

Uncle Sam : (To Wilson, resolutely) 

No, I can't suffer that, 
And you're talking a fish, 

(Excusing himself for the slang) 

Open armories of mine, 

Give them arms, so I wish. . . . 

Wilson : 

Oh, listen, wait, my master. 
By Jove, I'll write a note. 
For a year or two or more ! 
I'll try to ''get their goat." 

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And you can all admit 
That the might of my pen 
Can protect the honor 
Of every denizen. 

Roosevelt : 

Oh, you have been using 
Your writing might for years 
And it produced only 
More of blood and tears. 

And all other nations 
Now ridicule your course — 
It's a disgrace for us, 
Your policy — a curse. 

Bryan : (Fearing that there may he a fight) 

God bless you, children, 
Peace ! peace ! at any price. . . . 
War is hell, don 't you fight . . . 
Hatch a dove — my advice. . . . 

Wilson: (To Bryan) 

I thank you my teacher. 

Marshall : (To Wilson, pathetically) 

You kept us out of war 

Oh, so sucessfully 

And you can keep so — more. 

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Wilson : 

Thank you, Mr. Marshall, 
And you shall keep my vice, 
So long as I am here 
Stick by me^ — my advice. 

Stephen People: 

Mr. Vice-manager, 

Suppose that your wife 

Is assaulted by a devil 

"Would you fight — save her life ? 

Bryan : (Interrupting) 

Peace, peace at any price. 

Marshall : 

And that is what we say — 
She must be more careful 
And keep from him away. 

Wilson: (To Roosevelt, "bluntly) 

Say, you — republicans, 
You think me an autocrat, 
Can't you understand that 
I am a democrat f — 

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Roosevelt : 

No, I am American! 
And stand for union 
And liberty of men — 
Whom we depend upon. 

Wilson: (Continuing) 

I AM TOO PROUD TO FIGHT, 

I am too good for this. . . . 
Let other people fight, 
But I will live in bliss. 

Roosevelt : 

Come, Mr. Manager — 
Would you fight for your wife, 
Knowing that you can save 
Thereby her very life ? 

Wilson : 

Oh, most assuredly. . . . 
To save her life — I '11 fight ! 



Bryan : 



Peace, peace at any price. 
Manager, you aren 't right ! . . 

You were saying before 
I am too proud to fight, 

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Loved peace at any price, 
Held — might isn't right. . . . 

Better live — a coward 

Than a hero in the grave. . . . 



Roosevelt : 



Would you fight to be free 
Or live in peace — a slave ? 



Bryan : (To Wilson) 

Yes, peace at any price, 
That's just my idea! . . . 
And if you want the grave 
Go fight o'er the sea. . . . 

But since you're for this stuff, 
Here's my resignation. . . . 

(Solemnly) 

GIVE ME LIBERTY 

OR A GRAPE-JUICE CONVENTION. 

Wilson : (Solemnly) 

Grape- juice convention, 
National prohibition 
Shall glorif}^ your name 
And fill your ambition. 

END OF PART THREE 
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CHAPTER VI 
Act VI 

WAGER OF POLITICS 

Demon met a failure. 
To win love in U. S. 
And so came back to his 
Old haunts for new success. 

When the last two kings 
Joined the ring of British 
And so many thought then 
That war's at the finish. 

But it came not to pass 
Devil was too mad to rest : 
While eating spaghetti 
He smashed all Bucharest. 

But still his tail was fast 
Held in the teeth of the czar, 
And from his goal in Paris 
He still was very far. 

Then devil bade czarina 
With all her blackest might 
To bring peace with the Russ 
And stop her nation's fight. 

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But the Russian people 
Cut her business off, 
And the mad czarina caused 
The fall of Romanoff. 

So England sent to Russia 
Gramophon — Kerensky — 
But devil with bloody rag 
Sent — Lenine and Trotzky. 

The devil's policy 
And British policy 
In respect of Russia — 
Was — ' ' more democracy. ' ' 

(Demon and Kaiser) 

Kaiser: (Alliance with reds) 

My dreams are coming through. 
Russia is dwindling off. 

Demon : 



The British aided me 
To o'erthrow Milukoff. 



Demon : 



Call Lenine and Trotzky 
For a conference with us. 

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Kaiser : 

Lenine's here but Trotzky 
In the red haunts of U. S. 

But I am, sure, in doubt — 
Whether men of Karl Marx 
Can help us very much. 

Demon : 

Oh, they are easy marks. 

You don't forget your own 
Marxian democrats. 

Kaiser: 

Oh, well, that's different. 
They always were my brats. 

(Lenine enters) 
Demon : (Interview with Lenine) 

I heard that you would 
Accept help from the devil 
To make the lower class 
To uproot the bourgeois evil. 

Lenine : 

Yes, I said — long ago 
That the proletariats 

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Must rule the world as kings 
And not exist as brats. 

And to uproot the rule 

Of cruel capitalism 

I'd accept the devil's help 

For the cause of bolshevism. 



Demon : 



For the equality 

And brotherhood of man. 



Kaiser : 



All Russia then will be 
A patriarchal clan 

With me — their patriarch. 



Demon : (To kaiser) 

Don't show your ignorance, 
Call it a communism, 
And great deliverance. 

Kaiser : (Correcting himself) 

Das ist recht, in my heart 
I'm not an autocrat, 
I long for socialism — 
I am a democrat. 

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And that 's why my Marxists 
Fight for me, because — 
I am for liberty 

(To Lenine, positively) 
I'm fighting for your cause. 

And my Bulgarian czar — 
A socialist, too, you see. 
And the Turkish sultan 
Made all his harem free. . . . 

(After a passing thought) 

When I picked the flowers 
From the graves in France 
I heard them say to me 
Further not to advance. 

And why should I fight? 
When there is a better chance 
To establish my rule 
By means of your fine plans? 

I stand for liberty, — 
And freedom of the sea 
For a universal Gott — 
For a democracy. 

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Lenine : (Aside) 

Of course, he is a liar 
But I will use his aid 
To establish bolshevism, 
Of him I'm not afraid. 

Kaiser : 

You know this very well — 
The war's been forced upon me, 
For I'm a radical 
And stand for liberty. 



Lenine : 



Point of information :- 
For whose liberty? 



For liberty of men — 
Such as you and me. 

Our interest — the same — 
I'll get the capitals 
Of my foes on the west 
And help your radicals 

To make you all supreme 
To do whatever you please 

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In Russia, but hear this : 

''We are to live in peace." 

(Aside) 

He is an easy chap 
Then all his motherland 
Will become soon after 
The part of Vaterland. 

Lenine : (Aside) 

I will make his tail rot 
When I get the power 
And to save his own head 
He'll hide in his Dutch bower. 

(To Kaiser and devil) 

Your offer pleases me, 
Finance the bolshevists, 
Send us your officers 
And all your communists 

To put the middle class 
In Russia underneath 
And to the working class 
Present a victor's wreath. 

(Lenine leaves, shaking hands with 
the devil and the kaiser.) 

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PART FOUR 



Act I 

FRUITS OF RUSSIAN REVOLUTION 

(Meeting of delegates in Russia to 
decide on peace or war against the 
kaiser after the czar was deposed.) 

Stand of Progressive Party 
MiLUKOFP : (Ending his speech) 

We must fight the kaiser 
And fight to the finish 
And then protect ourselves 
From the Japs and British. . . . 

(After explaining the relations of 
Russia ivith the foreign nations 
and the necessity of concerted ac- 
tion of all the people of Rus- 
sia for the interest of the country) 

(Appealing) 

To save Russia from wreck — 
Keep the law and order. . . . 

Voice of Bolsheviks: 

Law and order of czar ? . . . 
Slavery and hunger! . . . 

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MiLUKOFP : (Replying) 

Homicide for a crime 
Cannot be a murder, 
It's never slavery 
To yield to law and order. 

(Continuing) 

For the welfare of Eussia 

We must have the Dardanelles — 

Open roads to the seas. 

And what we're in need of else 

Is to teach the masses 
To read and write, — and — 
The curse of bolshevism — 
The people to forget. 

History makes no jumps, 
Eight after monarchism 
You never can establish 
The state of communism. 

The republic must be built 
By the gradual evolution 
Of the masses themselves, — 
Not by a revolution. 

(Milukoff leaves the tribune under the applause 
of the delegates) 

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Stand of Moderate Soclvlist 

Kerensky : 

(After speaking a few hours on the 
subject of war without annexa- 
tion and indemnities and on scien- 
tific socialism) 

Milukoff, my comrades, 
Is not a socialist — 
Wants his Dardenelles! 
He's an imperialist! — 

No better than the czar, 
But our revolution — 
Made to change conditions 
Of the old constitution — 

(Shouting) 

Down with the laws of the czar! . . . 
Down with discipline! . . . 
In the army and navy! . . . 
Down with the czar's machine! . . . 

Long live the committees! 
Committees everywhere! 
In the army and navy. . . . 

General Korniloff : (To Milukoff) 
This soap box debonnaire, 

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By destroying discipline, 
Will cause our might to cease. 
With the fall of our armies — 
Eussia will lose its peace. 

MiLUKOFF : (To Korniloff) 
He is a British hand. 

Kerensky : 

We must fight — God compels !. 

But — no annexation! 

We need not the Dardanelles. 

We must fight the kaiser, 
Down with his institutions ! 
But no indemnities, 
And no contributions! . . . 

And universal peace 
Will come and stay with us, 
And then will liberty 
Protect the home of the Russ! 

(Kerensky leaves the trihune under 
the applause of delegates.) 

Stand of Army Leaders 
Gen. Korniloff: 

(Korniloff made an impassioned 
speech on the subject of preserv- 

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ing the discipline in the army and 
navy in order to continue the war 
against the central powers and to 
hold Russia together from hreah- 
ing to pieces.) 

New God — new sacrifice ! 
But I'll rebel, — to-day. . . . 

(Pointing to Kerensky) 

He drifts to bolshevism ; 
I shall drive them away. 

I am a moujik myself, 
And this you can't deny, 
And I '11 fight for Russia 
To save her or I die. 

(Gen. Korniloff leaves the tribune 
under the applause of delegates.) 

Bolshevism 

Lenes^e : (On the tribune) 

Comrades, citizens, friends. 
We do not want their war. 
We don 't want the slaughter ! 
We want our freedom more ! 

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We want but peace and bread ! 
But freedom, peace, and bread! 
That is what we all want. . . . 

(To the right from the center) 

YOU want to die — GO AHEAD ! 

But don't make the others 
To die for you — in war. . . . 

(To the right from the center) 

The mass works for you — ^yet ! 
That's not enough — NO, more — 

You want them to die for you. 
But that's too much to ask 
From anybody, because, 
It's a self perform 'd task. 

(After two hours of speaking on 
the subject of inequality and op- 
ression, etc.) 

Down with bourgeoisie ! . . . 
And private property ! . . . 
Down with slavery ! . . . 
Long live liberty! . . . 

All the lands — to peasants! 
All the mills — to workers! 

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All the stores — to masses ! 
All the bread — to toilers. . . . 

(Applause from the left interrupts 
the speaker) 

Voice: (From the left) 

We want you our leader. . . . 
Make free the enslaved mass. . . . 
Long live the brotherhood 
Of the only working class. . . . 

(General commotion of the assem- 
bly stops the speaker and is be- 
yond control of the chairman. 
Trotzky in meantime comes to Le- 
nine and, after a consultation 
with him mounts the tribune. Le- 
nine leaves the assembly immedi- 
ately and returns with an armed 
force ivhich by violence ousts the 
opponents.) 

Terrorism 
Trotzky : 

(Speaking more than two hours on 
the subject of cause and preven- 
tion of wars, peace with Germany 
and social revolution) 

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To save the revolution 
We must have a red guard — 
Death to the bourgeois class! 
Kill them or whip them hard ! 

All who are not with us 
Are against us, therefore, 
On each opponent now 
Here we declare a war ! . . . 

(After a deliberation on the prac- 
tical matters the assemhly had 
elected the ministers. Lenine was 
elected by the coTnmissioners as 
their president and Trotzky as a 
minister of war and navy. Hence- 
forth the orders of this body were 
carried out strictly under the pen- 
alty of death as from the supreme 
authority of the land.) 



EESULT OF BOLSHEVISM 
Kaiser ^s Greatest Victory 

So Russia was brought down 
The devil's tail was free 
And the British navy ruled 
The ports of the Russian sea. 

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Soon the middle of Europe 
Came under the kaiser's hand 
And the Russ were sold to him 
By Trotzky and his band. 

And the might of the kaiser 
Grew stronger than before 
And the world was thinking 
That the kaiser won the war. 

Call for Help 
And in this distress, 
To save them in the fray, 
They looked about for help, 
And turned to the U. S. A. 



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PART FIVE 



CHAPTER I 

RESPOND 

(Meeting of the council of defence 
of the U. S. A.) 



Roosevelt : 



The kaiser wins the war — 
All the middle of Europe 
And Russia are with him 
For the allies there is no hope. 

Shall we trust the kaiser 
Since his treaty with the Russ . . . 
And shall we live in peace 
When he makes war on us? . . . 

Lusitania is sunk — 
"What proofs need you more 
To show you that it's 7iot 
A friendly act — but WAR. 



Wilson : 



(After the speeches of other states- 
men in favor of war) 

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Yes, and I am tired, too. 
Of corresponding more. 
And for democracy 
We'll start on the kaiser- war. 

Uncle Sam Accomplished Impossible 

And Uncle Sam did start, 
With all his fervent might — 
Became ready for war 
Practically over night. 

He has accomplished 
The impossible thing — 
Built bridges over seas 
And made all Europe sing 

The star spangled banner. 
And why should they not sing! 
When in such a dire stress 
They saw a hope on the wing ? 

British sin for Russia 
Was paid by the blood 
Of boys of Uncle Sam, 
Forget it not, my God. 



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Chapter II 
Act I 

LAST CHARGE OF DEVIL'S ARMY 

But a sin for a sin : 
Beast 's tail would not heal ! 
Because it was infected, 
Now they themselves reveal, 

With the kaiser's poison — 
With a fierce bolshevism, 
And kaiser started to cry 
For peace and humanism. 

Why he became so good ? — 
Saw stars and stripes ahead! 
And his tail in the rear 
Was gangrened ! — it was red. . . . 

And the ire monster then, 
He has groaned once more 
And struck, to save his life. 
The front to win the war ! . . . 

But the eagles of Uncle Sam 
Met him over the top 
And made him run so far 
It seemed he would never stop. 

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(The scene of 'battle in France) 
MARXISTS' STRATEGY 
People : 

Say, wait you, Kamarade: 



Wherefore such a hurry? 
Wait, my demokratens. 



Demokrat : (Running ahead toward Berlin) 

I cannot, I am sorry. 

(Running without looking hack) 

I am going to Berlin, 
I can swear, — I am sore, 
To depose the Kaiser. 

People : 

Because he lost the war ! 

But say, you hypocrite, 
Leave your arms or I fire. 

Social Demokrat : (Throwing arms down) 

Don't shoot me, but the kaiser, 
Whom no longer I admire. 

He kept us out of peace. 

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People : 

Because he loves you more. 

Social Demokrat: 

Just like your President, 
Who kept you out of war. 

We're going back to Berlin. 
Oh, Gott is still mit uns, 
My Vaterland is saved. . . . 
Shoot the kaiser and his sons ! . . . 

BLAMING AUTOCRATS 

And so it came to pass 
The social demokrats 
Put the blame for war 
On their autocrats. 

Act II 

(Demon and kaiser in the hower of 
Holland) 

Kaiser : (A fugitive) 

My Gott, our cause is lost. 

Demon : 

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Kaiser : 



I am a fugitive here, 
Not in the mirror's hall. 

Demon : 

It's a strategic move 

For the good of the Vaterland — 

See, if you are deposed 

And all your high command — 

Then your own demokrats 
Will meet a democrat — 
The President Wilson. 

Kaiser : 

Why, what do you mean by that? 

Demon : 

What do I mean by that? 

(Ending his explanation) 

They'll put the blame on you, 
For causing the great war 
To escape to pay the due. 

Kaiser : (Nodding his head in consent, then) 

But who will pay his cost 
For coming over here ? 

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Demon : 

But he's a democrat, 

I 've said, didn 't you hear ? 

Act III 
DIPLOMATISM 

(Clemenceau and Lloyd George 
after the armistice was signed and 
hefore the peace conference) 

Lloyd George: 

My friend, I pray to God — 
Oh, we have won the war. . . . 

Clemenceau : 

My friend, France is saved — 
The kaiser is no more. 

Lloyd George: 

And Russia out of the way — 
And we have her ports yet. 

Clemenceau : 

They saved us from the kaiser — 

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Lloyd George: 

The past we must forget. 



Now we shall get the loot. 
And then we'll make U. S. 
Thru a ''League of Nations" 
To guard our loot and us. 

Clemenceau : 

Do you think the Russ will be 
At our conf ernece, here ? 

Lloyd George: 

Kerensky's a waiter now- 
They've no one that we'd hear. 



BENEFICIARIES OF THE WORLD'S 
WAR 

All's well that ends well. 

The British and the French 

And the idle kings 

Have won the war on the bench. . . . 

The French and British took 
The kaiser's lands and ships, 

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The kings took what they could, 
Wilson enjoyed his trips. 

Japs took Eastern Asia 
And bolted off with that, 
And Russia became a prey 
To the proletariat. 

But the boys of Uncle Sam, 
By grace of democrats, 
''Won" Sixty Dollars each 
To buy them suits and hats. 

WILSON'S FAILURE 

Wilson came in triumph 
At the peace conference 
But on coming home — was 
Without such preference. . . . 

Wilson's ''Fourteen Points" 
Were small for "demokrats". 
And did not satisfy 
The other diplomats. . . . 

And so it came to pass. 
His ' ' Fourteen Points ' ' were lost. 
Though we fought for nothing 
But we paid the war cost. 

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Act IV 

ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF BISMARCK 

(Spirit of Bismarck and the demon 
on the gallery at the peace con- 
ference in the Summer of 1918.) 

Spirit of Bismarck: 

I cannot suffer that, 
Such a degradation. . . . 
Our contract is broken, 
I want a reparation ! . . . 

Demon : 

Bismarck, it was your fault. 

Spirit of Bismarck: 

What, the fault was mine? 

Demon : 



Yes, kaiser was anointed 
By the unholy wine. . . . 



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PART SIX 



Act I 

(Scene of garden. Spring in full swing. People 
sitting under an oak tree on the 'bench, looking 
at the statue of Wberty.) 

LOVE 

Oh, my sweet Liberty, 
I shed my blood and tears 
Just for looking at you — 
So many days and years. . . . 

I fought England for you, 
I fought the Spaniard out, 
I fought the kaiser down 
And more I'll fight — no doubt. 

I love you, Liberty, 
I love your lips and eyes 
And if you were mine now 
I'd feel in paradise. . . . 

Liberty, I love you, 
Come down, and be my wife 
And we shall be happy 
Thru our eternal life. 

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COLUMBIA'S ROLE 

Columbia : 

(Appearing to People and pointing 
at liberty's statue) 

My boy, do you know her ? — 
I see, you are sincere. . . . 

People : 

But I believe in her. 

And she is to me so dear. . . . 

Columbia : 

All who loved her before, — 
From immemorial times, 
But just while courting her, 
They have committed crimes, 

Because they know her not. 
Now she's growing older 
And I want her to be 
The wife and the mother. 

But before the wedding 
We shall descend to hell 
To show you her lovers. 

People : 

With you am ready, well. 
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Act II 
CZAR NICHOLAS II 

(Our party on approaching the 
gorge of hades observed a house at 
the end of a small garden, where 
there was a man working about 
flowers) 

People : 

(Ashing the man on approaching 
him) 

Who is living in this house? 

(A man turns to the party and 
People exclaim to Columbia) 

My God, that is the czar, well, 
But, surely, I expected 
To see the czar in hell. 

Czar Nicholas: 

That is my own dwelling, 

My family and I 

Live in this little house. 

People : 

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Czar Nicholas: 

Didn't I suffer enough 

While on the Russian throne? . . 

People : 

"Well, it may be so, but 
It's a fault of your own. 

Where is the czarina? 

Czar Nicholas : 

She lives in the abyss. . . . 

People : 

Why, are you separated — 
That you can live in peace? 

Czar Nicholas: 

Oh, well, she visits me 
Here every other day. . . . 

(Czarina appearing from hell) 

Now she is coming here. . . . 

(To the party) 

Oh, no, don't go away. . . . 

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People : 

Why is she kept in hell? 

Czar Nicholas: 

For treachery, my friend. 
She helped the devil's cause 
And caused my rule to end. . . . 

People : 

But how did you escape 
From being down with her? 

Czar Nicholas: 

I loved her — all lovers — 
Exempt from hell, my sir. 

And because of my love 
Heaven granted her 
The right to visit me. . . . 
I am here a gardener. . . . 

(Czar as if in a dream) 

She died — a broken heart, 
But my son and daughters 
And myself were murdered 
By the band of robbers. 

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People: (Taking leave from the czar) 
What's your message to men? 

Czar Nicholas: 

To love their own wives, 
Minding their own affairs, 
And hell won't take their lives. 

(Our party entered the gorge of hades and dis- 
appeared therein. Then the four daughters and 
son of the czar came and greeted the parents) 

Act III 

HADES — WHERE THE ADMIRERS 
OF LIBERTY LIVE 

(Scene of ordinary picture of hell, where all the 
provocating agitators are snakes. Saloon keep- 
ers are derelicts after the night before. Dis- 
honest hankers are shovelling a red hot gold. 
Bad wives and girls are running naked and 
hounded hy the leasts and reptiles of every de- 
scription. Old maids are turned into barren 
and dry trees, on the branches of which the gos- 
sipers are hung by their tongues. The crooked 
judges and lawyers and the fake doctors are the 
coockoos whose number is decreasing. All the 

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cheating profiteers are suffering a lose of one 
pound of flesh every day from the hands of 
Shylock, who is now their chief creditor and 
judge.) 

The King of Hades 

(People and Columbia went through 
the whole crowd unmolested physi- 
cally and approached the king of 
all the ghastly inhabitants) 

People : 

Who is that blackest chap? 
He looks like a kaiser. . . . 

Columbia : 

That is his own father, 
First Liberty's admirer. . . . 

He tried to free himself 
From God — to marry her, 
And now for that attempt 
He's such a character. . . . 

Demon: (To People) 

You took my love on earth, 
Therefore, I lost the war. . . . 
But you have profiteers 
And reds — 111 come once more. . . . 

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Columbia : (To People) 

Keep your true love in you 
And he'll ne'er come out. 



People : (Excitedly) 

Oh, I'll furnish a home 
To each soldier — no doubt. 



Columbia : 

Not only to the soldiers — 
But to every one. . . . 
Then you'll marry Liberty 
* And he'll be left alone. 

The Kaiser 

Kjliser : 

(Appearing from the darkness and, 
on observing the visitors, half sur- 
prised takes a seat on his throne) 

Visitors from the earth. . . . 

People: (To Columbia) 

And this is the kaiser! 
He isn't so dashing here, 
He looks more a miser. 

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(To the kaiser) 

Your majesty of hell, 
What would your message be 
To your kins on earth ? . . . 
Would you tell it to me? 



Kaiser : 



Soon they shall follow me. . . , 
You see that row of thrones — 
These for the Norman kings. . . 
On my left — the little ones. 

(Directly to our party) 

My message to them all — 
To love your Liberty 
If sooner they desire 
To join my company. 

Would you send a message 
To your own Vaterland? 



Kaiser : 



To help the bolsheviks 

And crooks on every hand. . , 

And reform my old guard, 
And while the first two fight, 

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My old guard will appear 

And reconstruct my might. . . . 

(People and ColumMa on leaving the kaiser 
meet a crowd of h easts with human heads , 
veneraMy looking at him.) 

Act IV 

THE SUPERMEN 
People : (Surprisingly) 

Who are these strange monsters'? 

Columbia : 

Why, don't you recognize? . . . 
The kaiser 's generals ! 

People : 

Why they are in disguise. . . . 

Columbia : 

Those are the supermen, 
And they are themselves here^ 
In their real Vaterland, 
In their own shape and sphere. 

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People : (Looking at the leasts) 

And this is Hindenburg 
With the body of a bulldog. 
And this is Ludendorff 
With the body of a hog. . . . 

Columbia : 

(Taking People ly his hand and 
going farther) 

Now we shall see some more 
Admirers of Liberty, 
Who 're enjoying themselves 
In this society. . . . 

Act V 

OCTOPUS UBER ALLES 

(Our party has approached a cave 
with a sign on the entrance 
''Octopus Tiber Alles") 

Columbia : 

Look at this — Von Tirpitz! . . . 
He is an octopus here, 
Eats the flesh of babies 
Without a shame or fear. 

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People: (To Yon Tirpitz) 

You're thirsty on the seas 
And hungry here in hell. . . . 

Von Tirpitz: 

You cannot talk to me — 
I'm the kaiser's sentinel. 

Columbia : 

Oh, wait, my dear People, 
We shall meet some more 
And better freedom-lovers 
Than we met heretofore. 



Act VI 

LENINE'S END 

Columbia : (Pointing at the graveyard) 

And here suffers Lenine. 
He's borne by a red flame 
And every day and eve 
He is changing his name 

And hides from the others; 
The reason is simply this; 
E'en here in hades 
He is feeling an abyss. 

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He couldn't bring about 
The social revolution, 
Therefore, he'll have to flame 
While gradual evolution 

Is bringing poor and rich 
Closer to each other. . . . 
He made one revolution 
But he can't make another. 

People: (To Lenine) 

Why you failed to bring 
The social revolution 
All throughout the world, 
May I ask this question? 

Lenine : 

Yes, and I'll answer short: 
One hundred bolsheviks 
Contained: — sixty common fools, 
Thirty-nine mensheviks, 

Criminals and rabies, 
ONE — decent bolshevik ! 
Arithmetic decided 
Such a body politic. 

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People : 

What helped you the most 
To gain your power there 
In the land of Russia? 

Lenine : 

Profiteers and hunger, sir. 

People : 

Why the devil failed you? 

Lenine : 

Oh, he failed flat himself 
To win love in U. S. — 
So you know that yourself. 

People : 

Tell me, Mr. Lenine, 

Was it bolshevism 

That did break Russia down ? 

Lenine : 

No, it was terrorism. . . . 

For bolshevism as such — 
The abolition of classes, 

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Is but a communism — 
A ruling by the masses, 

Where there's no rich or poor, 
And gold's but an ornament-— 
Of no value to the owner, 
Where peace is permanent. . . 

Abolition of armies. 
Abolition of navies. 
Abolition of jails. 
Franchise of the ladies. . . . 

Freedom . . . equality . . . 
And fraternity . . . 
State to feed and care 
And state's maternity. 

People : (Cutting him short) 

Why, you don't have it 
In Russia established? 

Lenine : 

Bolshevism in Russia 

Stayed — a day and — ^vanished. . . . 

People : 

And here will be your end? 
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Leniiste : 

My dreams have flown away, 
And in this dreary place 
I am condemned to stay 

Till profiteers and hunger 
Shall create the unrest 
When the real bolshevism 
Will arise from its nests. 

(Our party leaves Lenine tvith a 
doubtful smile.) 

Act VII 

HOME OF TROTZKY 

(Scene of the gloomiest and dirtiest place in hell. 
Heterogeneous conglomeration of all sorts of 
heasts and reptiles, — the most vile, vulgar, igno- 
ble, cowardly, base, abject, sordid, sinful, vi- 
cious, degrading, predatory, provocating, abom- 
inable, odious, execrable, loathsome, and abhor- 
ring, repugnant to every senses of touch, taste, 
smell, sight and hearing. — Such was the picture 
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observed the chief of the premises coiling on 
the corpse of half dead and naked victims with 
the red flag posted over them on which is writ- 
ten: ''Bolshevism of Trotzky and Co.'') 



Act VII 

TROTZKY 'S GREED 
People : 

And this ghastly reptile ! . . . 

Columbia : 

A boa — ^with Trotzky 's head. . 

People : 

Why, venomous viper . . . 
Of whom you heard and read. . 

(Repugnantly) 

Such a malformation! . . . 

Columbia : 

He is hunting after gold, 
When he finds a bourgeoise — 
Either sex — young or old — 

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He simply swallows it 
And keeps the gold himself. 
In the name of freedom 
Even here he gets his pelf. 

(When our party were near Trotz- 
hy's head the reptile opened its 
jaws and was ready to swallow 
People, hut Columbia stood on 
guard of People and averted the 
crime.) 

Columbia: (To Trotzky) 

Behold, you red reptile, 
We are visitors here 
And not quite your subjects. 
Keep out and don't coil near. 

(People wanted to see yet the 
Japanese and Chinese potentates, 
hut Columbia informed People 
that they live in worse slums than 
that of Trotzky 's habitat, so they 
took the way out to the light.) 

Act VIII 

EPILOGUE 

(The same garden of roses from, which People 
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People's true love to Liberty returned her sight 
and made her a real being. Now we see them 
together happy — in love.) 

People : 

I love you, Liberty, 
E 'en after having seen 
Your suitors in hades, 
And I would have been 

Unhappy all my life 
Without being with you. 

Liberty : 

I love you, my dear People, 
And I'll be good and true. 

(People and Liberty kiss and God 
Himself appears) 

UoD : (Blessing People and Liberty) 

Love, honor and obey 
And you shall ever be 
Free, happy and in peace 
Through all eternity. 

(White angels appear and lay the 
laurels on the heads of lovers.) 

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